COMMON ROE. SQl 



spotted m a similar manner ^yith the Axis : the 

 reader will find it figured in the present publica- 

 tion on the same plate with that animal. 



COMMON ROE. 



Cervus Capreolus. C. connbus ramosis teretibus erectis, summi* 

 tate bifida, corpore fiisco-rufo. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. i8o. 



Rufous-brown Deer, with branching upright cylindric horns, 

 bifid at the top. 



Caprea. Plin. Hid, Naf. 8. c. ^3. Aldr. bisulc, 738, Jonsfm 



Qmdr. p. 77. ^. 31. 

 Capreolus. Gem. Quadr. 324. 1098. 

 Le Chevreuil. Buff. 6. p, 198. pi, ^2, 33. 

 Roe. PeTinant Quadr. j.p, 120. 



The o-eneral history of the Roe has been so ex- 

 cellently detailed by the Count de Buflbn, that 

 I shall not scruple to insert without any ma- 

 terial alteration, his description of its manners, 

 &c. premising only that its colour is a reddish 

 brown, and that it is the smallest of the European 

 animals- of this genus. 



As the Stag (says this author) is the noblest 

 inhabitant of the wood, he occupies the deepest 

 shades of the forest, and the most elevated ridges 

 of those mountains which are covered with lofty 

 trees. The Roe, as if inferior in species, contents 

 himself with an humbler residence, and generally 

 dwells among the thick foliage of young brush- 

 wood. But if he is inferior to the stap* in dimiitv, 

 strength, and stature, he is endowed with more 



